I just bought a second hand Toshiba Satellite S50-D and installed Ubuntu 14.04. Everything seems to be in working order, except my sound does not work. The speakers seem to be recognised in the sound ...

64-bit.
I was doing fine with 12.10 but I read that 13.04 took care of a few of the more sluggish aspects of 12.10 so I decided to upgrade.
The installation package seemed significantly less smooth ...

Like the title says, I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Toshiba Satellite P875-S7200 and I can connect to the internet via wifi but my computer doesn't seem to recognize when I plug in a wired ...

My brightness keys don't work on Ubuntu 12.10.
It's weird because they only worked 1 time, and I was like "I guess it fixed itself," but it hasn't worked since then..
I get this from in syslog:
Dec ...

I have an older Toshiba laptop that I put a used hard drive in. The computer constantly reminds me that my version of Windows is not genuine. Sometimes it won't even load Windows and I have to use the ...

My sister wants to install Ubuntu on her Toshiba Satellite, which is a few years old. Problem is, her copy of Windows XP is not activated, and whenever she tries to activate it, she is told by that ...

Installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Monitor does not come on after ubuntu boots. I get a blank screen. Sometimes the screen comes on but the mouse and keyboard do not.
Fedora fairs a little better but still ...

I have a Toshiba Portege R930 laptop and installed Lubuntu 12.10 through Wubi and then installed the Ubuntu-Desktop package afterwards.
When in Lubuntu, pressing FN+F6 and FN+F7 lowers and increases ...

I got my wireless to work finally after initial issues. Now I have moved locations, I can't get Internet access. Wireless is still connected but that is all. I am not tech savy nor Ubuntu-savy so help ...

I have a Toshiba Satellite L500 with Ubuntu 12.04 and its wifi suddenly stopped working!! I've never seen like that before.. I tried also using external USB wifis but no success. I am not able to turn ...

I am a beginner in the world of Ubuntu (and all forms of Linux OS).
I recently was given an old laptop that I would love to bring back to life.
The laptop is a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet laptop (one ...

I'm having high IOWait and and generally slow disk speed.(on 7200 RPM TOSHIBA MK5061GSYN Hard Drive) My disk usage is %100 on Windows 8 too, so I don't think this is Linux related. I know I have 182 ...

I get a message about manually having to configure video or running at lo resolution, but I'm not able to get to the desktop, even at lo resolution...
Messages: "Your screen, graphics card, and input ...

Every ubuntu version I tried, since 12.04, the keyboard backlight never worked.
Right now, I'm using ubuntu 14.04 and tried the 14.10 and 15.04 versions and didn't work either.
It works until I reach ...

Fan is stuck on despite everything running at normal temps. Acpi seems to not be working and no sensors despite being set up.
lewis@Luitaco:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: ...

My TOSHIBA Satellite A505-S6980 has a row of touch sensitive buttons on top. They used to make a beep noise, but now they don't after I started using Ubuntu. The strange thing is, in the GRUB menu, ...

I have recently started using ubuntu, I installed ubuntu 14.04 in my Toshiba Satellite L655. But the I can not access internet although wifi is connected .I can access internet from windows 7/8.1/
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This is a new laptop that I just bought. Came with Windows 8.1, now is a dual-boot.
Sound Controls and Mute work with F9, F10, F11 like they do in Windows, but F12 for WiFi, F2 and F3 for brightness ...

I'm having a big headache with a Toshiba Canvio Basics 3.0 external hard drive (code HDTB110XK3BA). After formatted to ext4 filesystem with mkfs, the drive shutdowns itself about five minutes after ...

I am having trouble booting into my HDD, where I have installed Ubuntu as described @help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
I have attempted to utilize Boot-Repair to no avail. Here is my link pasteurl link:
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So I just got a new Toshiba Satellite, running windows 8. I made sure to use the universal USB maker, (Forgot the name but it was the one recommended) And it seems to be fine.... It has all the files ...